For me it was my Mother.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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    To bw honest, no clue, both my parents didn’t have dirt floors and they were born in '43 and '48. Maybe my grandparents, but I can’t check anymore, as all family members at my mother’s side are dead, as well as the oldest ones at my father’s side. (Including both my parents)

    I guess dirt floors were for the very poor pre WW2 in the Netherlands.

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      This has to be a Yank centric question. Very few places in Europe in the last 120 years would have had dirt floors unless they were very poor and rural.

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    We’re going back to at least my great grandparents, if not further, it’s very likely we’d be looking at some long-forgotten relative in “the old country”

    My dad once worked in a steel mill, on his first day on the job they gave him a broom and told him to sweep the floors. After a sweeping for a while while with no obvious progress being made he eventually realized it was a dirt floor.

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        I only count it because it was partially converted to a basement in 1926-9 and we do laundry down there as well as keep all the catboxes there. So my kids go down there for chores all the time. I have to keep reminding them to either put on shoes or go barefoot, though; they’ve ruined a lot of socks.

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    1 year ago

    My mother did. She also had a dirt floor one room elementary school. Grew up in the US south.

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    1 year ago

    My family disappeared into white trash before we know that answer.

    Meanwhile, my wife can trace her family back to an early 19th century vice president and actual slave owners.

    Edit: to be fair, I did my genetic analysis and do now know of distant relatives (whom I will probably never contact). I don’t think that counts though.

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    I have to say I have no idea. What an interesting question!

    I live in Finland, and the winters can be pretty rough. There is also a long tradition of building from wood. It would be impractical to build a house, usually with several fireplaces, only for the heat to escape through the ground.

    Dirt floors are only used in structures where people don’t spend the night, for example sheds. Also, there is an old church from the 15th century with the original dirt floor because of its historical significance.

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    Does it count if I looked at a couple houses with dirt floors while trying to buy? Prices are pretty high here and we have a lot of older houses. However I decided it must have concrete basement floors and no fieldstone walls, which eventually landed me in a “modern” 1946 house

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      1 year ago

      Im talking about a scenario where the person has to walk on dirt floors to get around their home.

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    1 year ago

    Technically me, but I have no recollection. My mom used to say that my grandpa coated the floor with something after I was born because it was too rough for me to crawl.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    Just asked my dad, an uncle in my grandfather’s generation. Right outside of the Omaha, Nebraska area.